Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1940 — Page 8
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| tie to any other country
nd the People Will
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MONDAY, JULY 8, 1840
THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN N the before their cool spell set in, Franklin D. Roosevelt trusted Jim Farley with many a secret as well as many a responsibility. But as the third-term talk grew, the confidences between the President and his political man Friday became fewer and farther between, and of recent ths it has seemed evident that Jim Farley and a thirdwere two elements that simply wouldn't
past,
mon term candidacy mix. And vet—yvesterday at Hvde Park the President covered the keyvholes and whispered into the pink ear of the Postmaster General the secret of the generation. He told Jim the answer to “will he run again?” And then he pledged him to keep the secret, Jim Farley is a man to envy in many respects—a big, friends here is someburning
able whose personal But
and most
healthy, good-natured. guy
are numbered in the tens of thousands.
him—the heaviest
thing we don't secret of our times, a secret he has got to keep to himself
envy
for a week or more, without so much as a knowing nod or shake of the head, even to his barber.
It's inhuman, Mr. President.
Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
Americans With 'Second Love’ Regard for Italy Have No Kick If Others Resent Nation's Hostility
EW YORK, July 8 —Thanks to John D. Capeci of Port Chester, N. Y, it is possible today to
| present clearly the sentiments of a native American
who retains affection for Italy and to discuss those sentiments from the standpoint of those who feel no
Mr. Capeci says 1 have yet to learn that “the
| United Stateser of Italian origin is as fine and up-| | right a citizen as the descendant of any other race;
that Italy's contribution to the United States hag been | very, very great; that every United Stateser of Italian origin lives first for the United States.” | But that does not mean, he says, that the same | man has not a second love “For everyone in the United States has a second love,” he writes, “and, the country consisting of peoples ot every land, it is but natural that these same peoples retain affections for their erstwhile lands. To think otherwise is infantile.” | ” ” =”
WONDER if Mr. Capeci has ever denounced with equal passion, or even taken mild exception to,| the constant hostility ot the official Italian press to-| ward the country for which he “lives first.” After all, | when Mussolini's press calls the United States a na-| tion ot gangsters that goes for Mr. Capeci. And if| he does not resent it he has no right to object to expressions of resentment by other Americans who have | no “second love.” | I realize, of course, that Americans who feel as he does toward Italy have been put on a spot, but sub- | mit that it was Mussolini who put them on the spot But he certainly doesn’t voice the feelings of all Americans of Italian origin, for there are many others who detest fascism and feel humiliation for the old country under the Duce | Love 1s a wonderful mystery, so perhaps it were a mistake even to try to understand the aflection for Italy of which Mr. Capec: speaks. But he invites the observation that Italy wasn't very kind to her people who emigrated to the United States by thou- | sands to escape hunger, oppression and ignorance »
= = i DO not agree that evervone in the United States has “a second love.” That principle has been gen- |
| erally disastrous in domestic relations, and it will be]
WHEELER, WAR, AND THIRD PARTY SENATOR BURTON K. WHEELER, Democrat, has declared that he will support no party that wants to go id much talk is being heard of a be led by him on that issue
to war “over there,’ ai third-party movement t« For so expressing himself he is charged with appeaseIncidentally, isn't a word of long respectability can suddenly turn wicked through the pres-
Appeasement, by the dictionary,
ment. it curious how
of current events?
tes the idea of calm, mercy, sweetness, light, tolerance
Sure and tranquillity, and those other soothing things for which the human heart is suppesed traditionally to yearn. e mdictment is brought against Wheeler, strong for national defense, talks out another European Furthermore s being charged with rallying iim a lot of indiseriminates called by one writer ‘the more violent peace people,” laborites, Townsendites,
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sts of all sorts,
st al All this is a
interesting for several different rea of the way the wheel of public build as it may affect in Chicago and the 1940 camrds expression for those who otherwise ye drowned out | But particularly, as in a characteristic role—taking off for a cause without first putting an ear to the ground and a wet
very SONng—as manifestation emotion turns when a war the
paign
-up starts; Democratic convention
as it aff
might |
wv the war cry.
it shows Wheeler
finger to the wind Whether
with
him not—and we have we can't help but admire his it stands out against a backof cautious and safe-plaving
we aoree with or
disagreed him oftenState ground mostly
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REALISM—FOR THE MONROE DOCTRINE F all
pressed, {
e Monroe Doctrine ever exme stated by Franklin Roosevelt For the Americas it proposes a showbetween the United States and the other nations It precedes by a few days the Inter-American Conference at Havana (July 20). While of
to our neighbors.
the corollaries to th he « now makes most sense.
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down a as to the part each will play. it assumes interest, it doesn’t In effect, it simply t in the doctrine for acceptance on how the other nations view what may happen to territories in the Americas which because change ownership. unless somehing is done on this side of the water to prevent.
a mutuality
esume speak tor
offers a proprietary
interes
or rejection, dependent of Hitlerian conquest
It abandons the idea of our going it alone, whether or no, in the policing of the whole Western Hemisphere, | and proposes that each nation sav how far, if at all. it is! willing to act toward joint protection. Many called corollaries—have been enunciated by Presidents of the past; most of them assuming a patronizing attitude toward the neighbors. This one frankly says that the critical problem of conquered territory “should be decided by all of the American republics.”
mterpretations
As to what the other republics may or may not want ! to do—that is yet to be told. Maybe a lot. Maybe nothing. | But out of the Rooseveltian proposal should come a clarification which will make it possible for every American nation to cut its cloth to fit the pattern of its own sellinterest. If out of Havana concrete commitments can be sub- | stituted for repetitious and inconclusive conversation every nation this side the Atlantic can breathe easier in the | knowledge that it knows what it is doing.
WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLISS AR up in the mountainous, heavily wooded hinterland of | Peru, near the Bolivian and Brazilian borders, flying ex- | plorers came unexpectedly upon a little Eden. Eighty white families lived there. For 25 years they | had been totally out of touch with civilization. They knew | nothing of the war that is devastating Europe. They had | not even heard how the World War came out. They were just living there, working and enjoying the fruits of their work, troubling nobody, untroubled by the world. It is hard to recall any very good news that they've missed during those 25 years. v | Rut into every Eden comes at length the Serpent. These people were foolish enough to ask the aviators to request | the Peruvian Government to provide them with a radio |
station. Nobody knows when he's well off, even people blessed
with isolation from the world and its feverish madness,
| equally | Mussolini
| University, stopped in front of his home the
| those
| that
|
in civic relations. Neither | nor his boss, Adolf Hitler, would permit claiming Italian or German citizenship to} and serve a “second love” for the United
embarrassing
anyone profess States | As to Italy's contribution to this country, I have al-| wavs been skeptical. 1 claim that it was an even trade. | Italy got rid of a lot of excess people, and the United States gave these immigrants a chance in life. Over the vears Italy has received back millions of dollars In remittances from these immigrants, and if we received music and culture from Italy we also received some contributions which were not unmitigated bless ings So says Italy is his “second love!’ And when Americans who have no “second love’ resent aspersions on their country by his Italy he savs the quality of his citizenship is impugned. That may be so, but if anvone has impugned it he has You can't two-time Columbia. She is very affectionate, but she will not stand for any lally-gageing
there we stand. Mr. Capeci
Inside Indianapolis
Mr. McNutt Has the Last Word— And So Do Tony Hinkle's Children
it seems. will ask any and all \F questions. One of the silliest was popped at Paul V. McNutt when he visited Oklahoma City recently The Hoosier was asked Mr. McNutt, how aoes it feel to be pretty The little group around the handsome dignitary became tense and silent Someone started to speak giving Mr. McNutt an opportunity to evade the answer But he didn’t want that type of opportunity surveyed the reporter and then quietiv replied: “You'll never know’ nN THE REV. CHARLES M. FILLMORE will celebrate his 80th birthday next Monday. Being a good Democrat as well as a good song writer, he'd like to celebrate by leading the Democratic National Convention delegates in the singing of his new hymn, “Thank
NOME reporters
oo
He
» on
| God for America.”
Smith, the Internal the “H” and “SS” legibly, but from there on out only he himself can read it. . . . Twenty Smiths have enlisted in the U. S Army here since the first of the year = ” =
THE PENNY SITUATION because of the new defense tax: No shortage has developed in Indianapolis banks so far, but they believe it is a little too soon to tell whether or not there are enough pennies to take care of usual needs and ithe new levy. , . . William C. Grauel, vice president and cashier of the Merchants National Bank, said pennies are used most at Christmas time and, like other banks, his firm Keeps a reserve on hand . If they suddenly run short they get a hurried up replenishment from the Federal Reserve Bank at Chicago Frank Wocher, assistant cashier National Bank, says the same the U mint is turning out pennies as as possible it will be several weeks before it is known whether there is a shortage Every large bank in town keeps on hand between $5000 and $10,000 in pennies A pretty penny (excuse it.)
Among the Smiths: Will H
AmeriHe fast
as the can thing says
< but
SOMEONE WHO plays them has figured out that residents of Marion County dump three million doliars a year into various types of pools The return is about 50 per cent . A prominent builder here isn't going ahead with that 84-unit apartment building . Afraid the U. S. may enter the war and the housing demand may slump I'ony Hinkle, the maestro of athletics at
Butler other | night and parked the car the wrong way. . . .| The two Hinkle children warned him . “I'll only be a minute. It's O. K,” Papa Hinkle replied. . . When he returned to the car a policeman was wait-| ing with the ticket . "We told vou s0,” the little | Hinkles chorused.
A Woman's Viewpoint | By Mrs. Walter Ferguson |
HERE do you suppose Kipling ever got the notion thac the female of the species is more!
| deadly than the male?
When examined, we find this is merely another of insults to women which have been handed down from sire to son, and are accepted so generally even the insulted sex takes them as universal truths From the point where Mr. Kipling left off, we go right on assuming that women always knock and never help one another, and that they are always |
| on the lookout for a chance to knife a sister in the
back. This is a slick lie and is proved such, a hundred times a day, in any community. { Not long ago I was a luncheon guest when the | women workers of a large department store met to discuss their problems. A paramount topic of con-| versation was the inexperienced girl. It wag evident
| leaders of the group were genuinely concerned to
help recruits learn the selling trade. The older people were eager to teach the younger the secrets of their own success, and every ambitious girl present must have felt a warm glow of gratitude at the sentiments she heard. | If we except the frailty of all mortals, we shall find, I think, that women, quite as much as men. lend helping hands to the weaker members of their sex And in view of what now goes on, when men slaughter one another by millions and strain themselves to think up new and subtler methods for torturing their kind, and when they continue to call upon women to exercise those tender humanitarian qualities men seem to have forgotten, it's time to call their hands on that moss-grown Kipling sentiment, »
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
MONDAY, JULY 8, 1940
The Watched Pot!
TAINK IT'S EVER GONNA
BOIL ?
The Hoosier Forum
I
wholly
defend to the death your right to say it.— Voltaire,
disagree with what you say
but will
CLAIMS ALLEGIANCE ONLY TO ‘AMERICANISM
By Ernest Workers
Alliance
Morton, Secretary, The members of Indianapolis local G-440 Workers Allianc.
legiance to no form of Stalin-ism Hitler-ism nor any “ism” excent true American-ism. are not obligated in anv way modern industrialism, capitalism or British imperialism. We stand on our constitutional rights in asking that we be allowed to employ our physical and mental abilities to the end that we might achieve an American standard of iving We are definitely against cans invading a foreign We did so in 1917-18. It thousands of lives and money to operate WPA for
Americountry Cost us enough fifteen
| years, and we gained nothing. Must
we do it all over again to prove we are against communism? Ninetyfive per cent of American parents share our vi*ws. Are thev all Communists? We stand ready to shed our blood for America but not a drop for the capitalist who is losing the money he took from America to invest in European enterprises Or should we share the fate that befell France, Poland, Holland, Belgium and Norway, by taking part in the troubles of Europe? God forbid. ® = SEES SENTIMENT FOR INTERVENTION GROWING Claude Braddick Twenty-six year ago a war broke out in Europe whose line-up was essentially the same as the one today—autocratic Germany and her allies against England and France, mothers of liberal governments. The United States, from the first, maintained her traditional neutrality, selling her goods to any nation, belligerent or not, who was able to receive them England, however, controlled the seas and received the iion's share Germany, seeing her armies slowly throttled by the British blockade, began to take desperate measures She attempted by stealth and trickerv to do what she couldn't do openly. Her outlawed submarine campaign became a fixed policy. She planned and executed elaborate
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in America, even sought Mexico to make war on
sabotage to induce us! All public
of these opinion and
steps led American closer to war with culminated—two vears and eight months later—in an actual declaration. Our slogan then was, "Save the world for democracy!” We won the war and saved democracy—if that indeed was our aim—since democracy of a sort continued to flourish in Europe and America Yet we soon came to hate that war as bitterly as if we had lost it Under the tutelage of W. R. Hearst, and the late Arthur Brisbane, we soon began to think of it as a war in which we “had no business.” We hadn't gone into
it willingly, as a free people should. |
We had been “dragged” or “duped” into it by wily British propagandists, or “pushed” into it by the machina-
tions of Wilson, who could scarcely |
wait until after his election on an
| anti-war slogan, to plunge us ry (war. “We fought to save democ'racy,” we sneered, “and look at de- | | mocracy now!” Never again! But today what do we see? The | | war in Europe is scarcely a year] |old; yet sentiment in America is) |growing by leaps and bounds for | | active intervention. Why? Has] | Germany violated our neutrality, | [threatened us? No. At least not! [to our knowledge. Believe it aa not, we want to save democracy! n ” ” SAYS “LIKING EVERYBODY”
NO QUALIFICATION By Reader
There he goes again! The selfappointed President Maker: Garrulous General Johnson! As follows: “He likes everybody,” referring to Wendell Willkie. As though any sane person could like everybody! As though liking everybody was a thing to be proud of! Particularly | in a presidential nominee! Thank] goodness President Roosevelt doesn't | like everybody and everybody knows it. I think I hear Mr. Willkie sing-| ing “Mr. Johnson, turn me loose | As a booster, you ain't much use.” | Poor Mr. Willkie. He really wouldn't be liking Hitler, we know. General Johnson should have mercy on this political fledgling. He can stand on his own feet, will be a worthy opponent of the great F. D., | whom so many of us continue to admire, even if he doesn't “like everybody.”
New Books at the Library
| friends
Gen. Johnson Says—
Events Abroad Prove That Neo Nation Can Depend on Any Other While There Is a War Going on
ASHINGTON, D. C., July 8-—Some of its esteemed contemporaries do not agree with this column's rebuttal of the constant claims that we are dependent on the British and Dutch East Indies for rubber and tin and that it was only the concurrence of England that has enabled us to maintain the Monroe Doctrine. Nobody has contested the fact that we could make better rubber than we buy or, that by using conservation, substitution and Bolivian tin, we could get by without East Indian tin. But it is said that it would be inconvenient, take a long time and cost too much. I challenge all of these. As to rubber, the fact is that if we turned to mass production on that vast tonnage, it would cost no more than the present price—which is low. But rubber and tin are subject to a monopoly by cartel. In war, price can be controlled. The price of rubber can be, and has been jimmied up to many times its present level. It is highly important to escape from this danger. » ”n on UITE apart from all this, long ago it was ree ported by the President's own National Re= sources Committee that for less than the price of two battleships. we could lay in enough East Indiaw tin and rubber to make us independent of foreign sources for the reasonably expecied duration of any war. This Administration didn't do it. It seems to have some strange reluctance to take Uncle Sam's whiskers out of that revolving wringer in the Far East. There is no doubt that British resistance to territoriai grabs of western hemisphere by other coun=tries has helped 1s maintain the Monroe Doctrine. But events abread are daily proving what this column has always insisted—that in war no nation can depend on any other. It is simply not true that Britain has respected the Monroe Doctrine herself or that we could not, for many years, have maintained it There have been four principal threats or actual encroachments on the Monroe Doctrine. England was involved in all of them. She was originally a party to the worst, which was the seizure of Mexico and attempt to establish the empire of Maximillian while we were fighting the Civil War for our very existence as a nation. She was only prevented from seizing a piece of Venezuela by our outright threat of war on » ” HILE there are claims on both sides of the argument, Argentina still vigorously asserts that the present British occupancy of the Falkland Islands was a seizure of Argentine possessions contrary to the Monroe Doctrine—and that we connived at it. Guatemala makes the same claim about British occuvancy of Honduras The British want Belize and Falklands for the same reason they want Gibraltar and Suez. One controls the Nicaraguan Canal route. The other controls the long route around the horn. If anything happened to the Panama Canal, the Falklands could become a critical danger point to us. It is painful to write pieces like this when our the British are in such agony. But it is equally painful to listen to the misinformation about vital American interests that is being daily pumped through a hundred nozzles into the pool of American opinion
Business | By John T. Flynn
U. S. Must Treat South America Light of Our Own Interests
NEW YORK, July 8-—As in everything else that has happened around these shores in the last few months, there is the appearance of haste and confusion in the plans we hear about South America. Two fears about South America are exploited. One is that Hitler, when he has done with England, will attempt a landing there. The other is that the dictators, once they are supreme and at peace in Europe, will begin some form of what is called “economic penetration” of South America. There is another fear which I do not hear so much about. That is that South America, on its own motion and without any aid from Hitler or any friendship for him, may alter the character of its dictatorships to conform to the Fascist model. What can Americans do about all this? First of all we have got to stop treating this South American problem in terms of the present war. We must stop using the South American situation as just one more instrument in the propaganda effort of England to
In
| generate support here.
We have to remember that South America is not Anglo-Saxon. It is not democratic. It has its own problems, its own ideology. And it will not help us in South America if those countries once get the
| notion that we are stirring up a great bother there
ITH all eyes “Low Countries” the publication of L. J. Power's “The Royal Ladies of the Netherlands: Queen Wilhelmina and Princess Juliana” (London, S, Paul) comes most opportunely. As one reads about cratic House of Orange, about the unaffected: simplicity of the court at The Hague, and about Holland's comparative peace with the world and friendliness toward all people it seems incredible that this same queen and princess are now refugees in foreign lands. Under the regency of her mother, Queen Emma, Wilhelmina began the business of monarchy at the
the demo-
Side Glances—By Galbraith
Lh,
"They're all strangers to me—they're the passenger list from my wife's winter cruisel"
.
turned to theiearly age of 11.
She is now near 60. Mr, Power's presentation convinces one that she has been more than a figurehead, that her active leadership of 70 million souls, at! home and in the colonies, has been | one of the most exacting tasks in the world. Although Holland with difficulty succeeded in maintaining her neu-| trality in 1914 the problems of the post-war years have been almost as difficult. There were attempts at revolution in 1918; there were prob-| lems attendant to giving refuge to the ex-emporer; there were irritants which disturbed the Dutch- | Belgian relations, and there were the problems arising from the de- | pression and unemployment. That through it all Wilhelmina has been) la queen with “backbone” is made | evident by instances cited by the | author. | In a speech commemorating the | 400th anniversary of her forebear| {William the Silent in the year 1933, | | Queen Wilhelmina gave expression to emotions which might have been | stimulated by much more recent] events. “With great concern,” she | said, “I think of all the bad times | Which every nation suffers. and I am deeply concerned over the serious sacrifices which world events] beyond our control have put upon] us. . . . The thought of the past is | supporting us for the future, and with God's help there are better times coming.” |
REST AND PEACE By MRS. H. A. JACOBY Oh where can rest be found Rest, in this troubled world: The hero found it under ground When his country’s flag unfurled.
That rest so dear to all For with it cometh peace; Peace when the soldiers lay down arms When cruel wars shall cease.
We pray this shall be soon, A world where peace shall reign; With no more wars to trouble us, War, witien brings us so much pain.
DAILY THOUGHT
The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the crv of him that ruleth among fools. —Ecclesiastes 9:17.
MUCH WISDOM goes with few-
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est words.~Sophocles,
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as part of a British propaganda drive.
Our Naive Attitude
We have already seen signs of unfriendly reaction to this in the refusal of the three most pewerful South American countries to take part in a hurriedly called conference. That conference was engineered as part of the “scare America’ drive. And they wanted none of it. The less of this sort of thing we do the better South American countries—Iike ourselves—believe thev have a right to trade wherever they wish—with Germany, Italy, England or us. Any attempt by us to interfere with that right is going to be resented. An instance of out naive attitude toward this problem is found in a newspaper story that Germany was offering war materials to Latin American countries for $60,000,000, to be paid in goods. The same war materials bought in America would cost $200,000,000. So the South American countries ine sisted on giving the business to their Nazi friends. Now what do American businessmen do when they can buy in one country for $60,000,000 goods which another asks $200,000,000 for? We will, if we are not careful, succeed in laying the groundwork for deep rifts between ourselves and our continental neighbors. South America has her economic troubles. The only thing that can keep these countries from drifting into a fascism of their own, is aid in solving their economc difficulties. We will not do that by keeping from them the trade which is open to them. South America is a problem of ours. We must solve that problem in terms of our own interests and not in terms of European countries.
Watching Your Health
| By Jane Stafford
ITH all the talk one hears these days ahout strategic minerals and whether we have or produce enough of them to see us through a possible war or other emergency, it is interesting to note how many of these minerals each of us is carrying around in his or her own body. Even that much discussed metal, tin, has been found in many of the human tissues. The body's chief storehouse for this substance is apparently located in the adrenal glands, those important little cocked hat-shaped organs above the kidneys. ‘Tin also occurs in considerable abundance in the liver, brain, spleen and thyroid gland. Do not be misled by the word abundance, however. The actual amount of tin in the body is really very small, rating it among the “trace elements,” some of which are needed by the body in such small quantities that they defy analysis by ordinary chemical methods. Almost all the calcium in the body, about 99 per cent, is in the bones, teeth and their connective tissues. Phosphorus is also used for building bones and teeth, but a much larger proportion of the phos= phorus in the body goes into other tissues. Iron for the blood is old familiar knowledge, but copper is also needed to make red blood cells and hemoglobin. Todine is needed by the thyroid gland to make its hormone which regulates basal energy metabolism and growth. Lack of iodine is the cause of simple goiter.
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